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Take Off the Cuffs

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] “Golden handcuffs” is a phrase used to describe a system of financial incentives designed to keep key employees from leaving a company. She is a co-author of The Character-Based Leader, as well as the author of the Random Acts of Leadership blog.

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Leaders Are Dream Releasers

Joseph Lalonde

They shackle them with golden handcuffs or maybe they beat them down with unkind words. Put them in situations where they can pursue their passion while developing the skills to achieve their dreams. They believe you are going to lead them in the right direction. Maybe even help them achieve their dreams. They are dream jailers.

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Fast Friday with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (and P. Diddy.

Roundtable Talk

Leadership and Sustainability: voice your opinion → Fast Friday with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (and P. On the flip side, people who I know who don’t love their jobs but make lots of money seem to spend a lot of time throwing around words like “golden handcuffs” and seem to be perpetually stressed and unhappy.

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Talent Management Best Practice 4 – Know Your Artificial Employment Retainers

Strategy Driven

For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

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Huawei’s Culture Is the Key to Its Success

Harvard Business Review

In doing so, they acquired extensive experience in developing sturdier equipment and materials – such as chew-proof wires — which helped them later on to gain several big business accounts in the Middle East, where similar problems stymied the multinational firms. As he puts it, he wants everyone to act like the boss.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. ’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs.